SSD Board of Directors

Chairpersons

As the intersection between public sector customers and Red Hat engineering and product management, his customer interactions and domain expertise blend customer needs with industry trends to help Red Hat define open source computing in the enterprise.He has achieved Red Hat's highest level of certification as a Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA), and has received Red Hat's highest employee honor as a Red Hat Chairman's Award recipient.
David has a BS and MS in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh, and an Executive MBA from the Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh.
Prior to joining Red Hat in 2007, he specialized in visual simulation, virtual reality, human computer interfaces, and scientific visualization at Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Follow David on Twitter at @davidegts and catch his weekly technology podcast at http://dgshow.org.

Neil has over 25 years of technical engineering experience and has been an entrepreneur in building and managing businesses for over 20 years. He has a strong business leadership background and broad technical skills cultured through firms he has founded and through senior management positions held at Nortel Networks, Lotus Development and IBM. Neil is a Professional Engineer and holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario.

Board Members

Flint has extensive experience leading innovative software companies and has an exceptional track record of accelerating growth through product innovation and sales execution. Currently CEO of CollabNet, a Vector Capital-owned leader in open Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). He also serves as an Operating Partner at Vector, advancing its position as a transformational partner to technology businesses. Prior to that, he served as president and CEO of AccelOps, a provider of a leading IT operations analytics platform for cloud and virtualized infrastructures. Prior to that, he served as president and CEO of Tidal Software, a leading application automation software solution provider, which later was acquired by Cisco. After the Cisco acquisition, Mr. Brenton served in various follow-on capacities, including Vice President of Advanced Services and as Senior Vice President of Engineering for Cisco's cloud-based Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) software offerings. At both AccelOps and Tidal Software, Mr. Brenton more than tripled sales under his tenure while focusing both companies on disruptive product introductions.
During his 25-year career, Mr. Brenton also served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of NetIQ's Security and Administration business unit and has held various leadership positions at NetIQ, Compaq Computer Corporation, BMC Software, and IBM. He received a master's in business and public management from Rice University and a bachelor of science degree from Mount Union College.

Feyzi Fatehi is a technology visionary, innovator and entrepreneur. As a Silicon Valley veteran, he is a pioneer in the SaaS and Cloud industry and serves as the CEO of Corent Technology – the recipient of Outstanding Cloud and SaaS Platform Award in 2015.
Feyzi has studied at Cambridge, Princeton, UT Austin, and UCLA and has given talks at Harvard Business School, Wharton, Stanford, and at industry events around the globe. As an avid supporter of education, Feyzi serves as an advisor to the UCLA Anderson School of Management, as a member of the UCI CEO Roundtable, UCI School of Engineering Leadership Council, and the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Feyzi also serves as a mentor and advisor at two Southern California technology incubators: Evonexus and the UCI Applied Innovation Institute.

Lorna Fenimore is the president of Multipub, the makers of a subscription and audience management platform that automates accounting, fulfillment and marketing operations. During her tenure at the company, she’s seen the market evolve from strictly printed content to a heavily digital business. A leader in the industry, she partners with her team to adapt their system to anticipate and meet the technological needs of data and content providers.
She started her career at Multipub in 1987 as a Software Support Representative. It was in this role that she began to learn the ins and outs of the business. In 1994, she was promoted to Vice President of Sales. Here, she took her knowledge of the Multipub platform and industry on the road and worked with potential new clients to further develop the system and forecast future trends. After 18 years in that position, she was promoted to president, where she resides today.

Bob serves as the Global Lead of Accenture Products and Platforms (APP). APP governs over 50 commercial software products across 12 business units that support all of Accenture industry group. Prior to Accenture he served as the Vice President of Engineering and Client Services at Choicestream Inc., a website personalization software company. Earlier, Bob was the CEO of MarketSoft Corporation, a provider of marketing automation solutions which he sold to Unica, later sold to IBM. He began his career at Andersen Consulting in their Andersen Software unit following completion of a Bachelor of Science in Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan.

Amede Hungerford brings to Reflektion more than two decades of experience in driving growth and innovation strategies across the enterprise software and technology market. As CMO, Amede leads the global marketing organization and is responsible for driving market leadership, global awareness, demand generation, product marketing, strategic events and communications for K2. Amede Joined Reflektion from such Cloud leaders as Dell Boomi and NetSuite, where he served as Chief Marketing Officer and VP of Marketing, respectively, and played an instrumental role in both company’s explosive growth by scaling the marketing teams, expanding into new markets, and moving up-market into the enterprise. Over his career, Amede also has held senior marketing leadership roles at Intuit, FICO, Sybase, and Hewlett Packard Company. Amede holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Duke University and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business.

Sam Keninger leads product marketing at Simpplr, assessing and analyzing customer challenges and market trends. For nearly 15 years, he has helped design and promote software to improve customer and employee experiences. He speaks at industry events and customer forums and is widely recognized as an expert in enterprise software technology.

Erich Litch is currently 2Checkout's Chief Revenue Officer. He joined Avangate in March 2016 and, following the 2Checkout acquisition, is currently CRO for the combined company. Erich has over 20 years of senior leadership, commercial, product and operations experience in growing software businesses. In this role at 2Checkout, Erich heads Sales and Marketing as well as Product Development.

Brendan oversees management practices and facilitates the company’s high-level strategic vision. He is a serial entrepreneur with extensive mobile and UX experience.
Prior to CloudMine, Brendan founded three companies, two of them software and mobile related: Textaurant, now TurnStar, and Fourth Power Solutions. Previously, he held various managerial and account relationship positions at Sunoco Chemicals, Business Solutions International and Fisher Scientific.
Brendan received a Master of Science in Engineering in Computer and Information Science from the University of Pennsylvania, a program sponsored by the school of engineering and Wharton. He graduated with a B.A. from Ithaca College.

Brad Mehl is the CEO of Boundless Markets. He has over 25 years of experience at start-ups, mid-market companies and billion dollar enterprises in software, business information and services, media and marketing services. His expertise is creating new revenue streams and turning marketing and business development functions into well-oiled machines. His clients have included major media companies, private equity firms, ventures backed by Google and FORTUNE 500 companies.
Mehl is a prolific writer and speaker. His newsletter is read by thousands of business people and he contributes to Chief Executive magazine, Chief Marketer magazine and other publications. He has advised start-ups for years, is on the Board of SIIA’s Software Division, was a mentor to DreamIt Ventures, and is on the faculty of the Content Marketing Institute.
He has an MBA from the Stern School of Business at New York University, completed graduate work at Rotterdam School of Management in The Netherlands and has a B.S. from Cornell University.

As CEO of Ambra, Morris Panner leads the company on its mission of delivering better care through better technology. Morris is an active voice in the cloud and enterprise software arena, focused on the services and healthcare verticals. He is a frequent contributor to business, healthcare, and technology publications. Before Ambra, Morris built and sold an industry-leading business-process software company, OpenAir, to NetSuite (NYSE:N). He once served as the US Embassy Resident Legal Advisor in Bogota, Colombia; and his first job ever was as a janitor at his old high school while on summer break from college. Both of these very different experiences taught him valuable lessons about the human condition, and make him cherish his time with family that much more. Morris has a BA from Yale University and a JD from Harvard University.

Paul has built his career around finding cost-effective and pragmatic ways to deliver complex software solutions. His professional experience includes roles of software engineering manager, technical leader and CTO, with companies focused on multi-tenant, high-availability software as a service (SaaS) models built to enterprise standards. Before goTransverse, he founded and was CTO and Director of Engineering at CreativeLink Technologies|SiteBlox.com, an Austin-based SaaS web content management, portal and commerce platform provider. He was the CTO of iPath Solutions, a boutique startup consulting firm focused on custom Java-based projects, which was subsequently acquired by NASDAQ-listed Perficient, where Paul worked with numerous Fortune 500 clients. Paul also worked as the Technical Director for Emerging.com, a consultancy and systems development provider, and was a Software Development Engineer/Manufacturing Engineer for Compaq. Paul holds MBA and Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degrees, as well as a patent for a manufacturing-related algorithm.

With a focus on the customer experience and increasing engagement through data-driven best practices, Rhonda helps organizations elevate their position in the marketplace. Rhonda is leading the collaboration between sales and marketing. She is responsible for marketing technologies, user data integration and management, data analysis, user care and circulation fulfillment systems/processes. Rhonda has set the vision for a unified collaborative sales and marketing organization, with streamlined technology managed by a central operations team.